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October 13, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), participated in Northwestern University’s 2016 Climate Change Symposium on the Water-Energy-Climate Nexus. Congressman Quigley’s keynote address for the Symposium focused on the importance of taking substantive action on climate change despite opposition from those that deny the issue is a problem or that solutions are possible.
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October 5, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05) released the following statement on the ascension of the Paris Agreement into international law:
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Defense and Foreign Affairs
October 5, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies (THUD), took his “Mike on the Move” transportation initiative to Divvy, a city wide bicycle ride-sharing system. His visit highlighted the trends of public transit and biking that the city is adapting in order to create a more transportation friendly and safer environment for bicyclists in the City of Chicago.
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Transportation
October 5, 2016
House Democrats are calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to update a report it last published nearly two decades ago about gun violence to help inform public policy on the issue.
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Gun Violence Prevention
October 4, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the New Democrat Coalition, joined ACG Global and prominent Chicago women in finance for a roundtable discussion to better understand the barriers women face in their ascent to leadership positions in the financial sector and what Congress can do to help remove these hurdles.
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Economy and Jobs
October 3, 2016
U.S. Representatives Mike Quigley (IL-05) and Mike Thompson (CA-5), members of the Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce, sent a letter along with 46 of their Democratic colleagues to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) urging for the publication of an updated “Following the Gun” report, which examines where criminals obtain their firearms, in light of recent tragedies involving gun violence.
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Gun Violence Prevention
September 29, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after House passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government through December 9, 2016
September 29, 2016
Currently, the VA provides many services for transgender veterans, including hormone therapy, mental health care, preoperative evaluation, and long-term care following gender-confirmation surgery, but gender-confirmation surgery itself is noticeably missing from the list.
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Health Care
September 28, 2016
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development (THUD), spoke on the House Floor to propose an amendment to H.R. 5303, Water Resources Development Act of 2016 (WRDA) regarding the McCook Reservoir Project.
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Appropriations
September 28, 2016
Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), a member of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition, released the following statement in response to D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals oral arguments on the Clean Power Plan.
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